ITALIAN POLICY

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1932, Page 5

ITALIAN POLICY

ALARM IN JUGO-SLAVIA PREPARATION OF DEFENCE FASCISTS’ HIGH AMBITION ‘PLUNGE EUROPE INTO WAR’ GERMAN PLANS RECALLED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 9.50 p.m. LOndon, Dec. 19. Jugo-Slavia is preparing to defend its frontiers against Austria, Hungary, Italy and Albania by settling organised irregulars on the Jugo-Slav side, says the Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Jugo-Slavia is convinced that Italy’s toleration of violent antiSlav demonstrations is part of a deliberate campaign.

A French correspondent of the Daily Telegraph adds that the Foreign Ministers of the Little Entente are meeting at Belgrade to exchange views on the latest development of Italian policy. The correspondent states that Signor Mussolini met Senator Gerengeur and other leading Frenchmen in November and insisted on the necessity of territorial changes in the map of Europe more than enough to throw the continent into war. It is reported that Signor Mussolini that Italy Ought to be regarded as the successor to Austro-Hungary and gave expression to ambitions, regarding the Balkans comparable with the pan-German schemes of pre-war days.

PERSIA’S CASE NOT READYBRITISH OIL CONCESSIONS. POSTPONEMENT ANTICIPATED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Geneva, Dec. 19. Persia has intimated that she cannot immediately present her full case to Britain regarding the cancellation of oil concessions to Britain, but that nothing will be don? to aggravate the situation. The Council of the League is expected to adjourn the matter till January. Sir John Simon will present the British case at Geneva.